Word: brande
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Zealand's Government when the world depression hit bottom in 1931 was Prime Minister George William Forbes, whose favorite cry was "Stabilize the Budget." He helped to stifle the 1932 Auckland riot with British bluejackets from H. M. S. Philomel and with 1,200 special constables swinging brand-new truncheons. His helplessness in the face of continued depression made him unpopular, and in 1935 the Laborites got a majority and a Prime Minister-a stocky, alert, pudgy-faced farmer's son named Michael Joseph Savage. Before becoming Prime Minister he had been a messenger boy, dam-laborer, miner...
...right on the spot, Vag made a noble resolution. If ever he made a lot of money--the absurdity of the idea rather appealed to him--he would come back to Harvard and give them a brand new, fire-proof, fireman--proof museum with "I wandered lonely as a could" written across the front in Albanian. And now Vag's only worry is that someone may do this before he gets around...
Last week Grand Rapids cackled with delight as its 123rd semi-annual market opened. On display for the first time was a brand-new furniture style, designed to "perpetuate Grand Rapids' reputation as the furniture capital of America." Grand Rapids (of Kent County, Michigan) named it Kentwood...
Groceryman Kunin jokingly proposed a merger: "With your brand names and reputation and my business methods, we can go places." Groceryman Dennehy laughed it off. But next time the two met on the train they joked some more about a merger...
Displaying a vastly different brand of hockey from that which gave way to the 11 to 1 massacre at the hands of Toronto just two nights ago, the unpredictable Hoddermen upset all the expectations of the pre-game prophets by thoroughly outplaying the same veteran Canadians that beat Dartmouth last week...